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Examples

• The use of a megaphone or speaking trumpet for conveying the sound of the voice to a distance is based on the same principle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was a wonderful experience to have problems given me out of the intuitions of a great mind, based on enormous experience in practical work, and applying to new lines of progress. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There is a conception of education which professes to be based upon the idea of development. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The war of the rebellion was no exception to this rule, and the story of the apple tree is one of those fictions based on a slight foundation of fact. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And this is right in one sense, as the laws of all countries in respect to protection by patents for inventions are based upon the primary condition of benefit to society. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• To blow the bridge at a stated hour based on the time set for the attack is how it should be done. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The inventions and improvements in optical instruments gave rise to great advances in the making of lenses, based on scientific principles, and not resting alone on hard work and experience. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Military cannon are divided into three classes, based upon the length of caliber, and technically known as guns, mortars and howitzers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Ingenuity has been shown also in the invention of talking-machines, like Faber's, based on the reed organ pipe. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Their minds construct a utopia--one in which all judgments are based on logical inference from syllogisms built on the law of mathematical probabilities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• None of those present ventured to make any remark on this assertion, although all felt that it was merely a random guess, based on the sanguine dream of an inventor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As regards loss due to resistance, there is a well-known law for determining it, based on Ohm's law. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It will be remembered that many of the earlier experiments were based on the use of strips of platinum; while other rare metals were the subject of casual trial. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What is known as the modern refracting telescope is based upon a different combination of lenses than that used by Galileo. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• This is a wise economy based on a good instinct. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was hopeless--an appeal based on sentiment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The following figures are based upon the Special Reports of the Census Bureau, 1902 and 1907, with additions computed upon the increase that has subsequently taken place. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Then, after suggesting some changes to reduce them still further, he went on to say: Here is a chance to save a mill per barrel based on your regular daily output. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It suggested a knowledge and an ability not based upon insight into principles, but expressing the result of a large number of separate trials. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• These were based on ancient, Roman writings. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The pyromagnetic generator is based on the same phenomenon; its aim being of course to generate electrical energy directly from the heat of the combustible. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Balfour has rec ently based an argument for the immortality of the soul. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• For we started originally with the division of labour; and the diversity of employments was based on the difference of natures. Plato. The Republic.
• We are all different and unequal in spirit--it is only the SOCIAL differences that are based on accidental material conditions. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The Imperial Palace and the entourage were equally based on Roman and Persian precedents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Truthful, upright, independent you are, as a rock based below seas; but also you are harsh, rude, narrow, and merciless. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The workmen's calculations were based (like too many of the masters') on false premises. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• His mistake had been based upon Wildeve's words at the opening of the game, when he indignantly denied that the guinea was not his own. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And in the ancient Greek aristocracies, merit was certainly recognized as one of the elements on which government was based. Plato. The Republic.
• Large interests were at stake, and the main defence to the Edison patent was based on prior inventions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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